• Comeover

    Origin

    come + over

    Full definition of comeover

    Noun

    comeover

    (plural comeovers)
    1. (Isle of Mann) An immigrant.
      • 2008, Kathleen M. Henry, Critical Mass (ISBN 0595624669), page 46:Some laborer, a comeover for sure, perhaps had stolen it, disabused his bosses of it, and for what?
      • 2011, Jonathan Raban, Coasting: A Private Voyage (ISBN 0307517713):It was a comeover who told me that she disliked the Manx because they were so “provincial.” She was quite wrong. The Manx were not in the least provincial; they were profoundly insular—and the distinction is essential.

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